This story explores the Walls through four generations in colonial Van Diemen's Land, and Central Victoria when it was still part of New South Wales. William Wall, a 17-year-old groomsman, was transported to Van Diemen's Land, now Tasmania, in 1835 as an assigned servant. Twice married, fathering 19 children, and with significant support from his free-settler wives, Mary Long, and Eliza Clarke, William became a farmer, publican, and inn-keeper. The book covers the 'Currency', William's 13 surviving children born of convict stock, and their descendants and how each generation assumed its place in colonial society over a period spanning 180 years. The paperback is 171 pages.